filthy.  Without a doubt, filty mineral oil will ruin an oil injected
rotary engine.  I maitain that for aircraft use a good grade of
marine 2 stroke oil should be mixed with the gas.  It can't hurt and
will almost certainly help.  Besides, there is less to go wrong - no
oil pump or oil lines.

Ken Powell

Bill Freeman wrote:

Unless you forget the oil.   For pilots, this is probably OK, but still some
risk.  For the average moron operating a car, no way in hell would
Mazda attempt to sell a car either with a separate injection oil tank
to fill or with a requirement to dump oil in the fuel.  The general public
knows (even tho many *individuals* do NOT) that running a car out
of oil is a big screwup on the owner's part and not a problem of
design or a warranty issue.  SO -- Mazda couldn't really do anything
else,  - doesn't mean WE can't, tho.

Bill

Mazda put a bunch of safe guards in the RX7. They took the very unusual
step of installing an oil level sensor in the oil pan on second gen
and maybe third gen engines. They could do the same thing for an aux
apex seal lube tank. Even cut the ignition in the car. Not the airplane:-)
When you run out of gas the car stops. The same could happen
when you run out of oil. Once or twice would be all it would take for
most people.

Paul Lamar
 
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